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From: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: animate-3d public domain programs
Message-ID: <1203@percival.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 88 19:01:57 GMT
References: <937@astroatc.UUCP>
Reply-To: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer)
Organization: Funkytown Software (a Division of Hash Enterprises)
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In article <937@astroatc.UUCP> jojo@astroatc.UUCP (Jon Wesener) writes:
>	Basically, 2 programs which will let you pull apart an
>animation into seperate iff frames, and the counterpart to put
>the frames back together into an animation file.  I want to edit
>the single frames for a few fine details and effects you can't
>model in sculpt and reanimate them.  
>jon wesener

As I mentioned earlier, Animation:Flipper will let you put IFF pictures
together into an animation file.  But, now that your original message
finally found its way to this machine (funny how articles sometimes
propagate :-), I may have some more relevant info for you.  We have a
couple of products in the works that will let you do what you are talking
about.  One is called Animation:Touchup that will let you edit individual
frames of a prerendered animation without having to unpack it first.  There
is a catch, it has to be in our format, since we save each compressed frame
in its own file.  Wait, before you give up, there's still hope.  I'm 
working on a product called Animation:Converter which will convert animation
files from any format to any other format.  We intend to support ANIM,
Apprentice, Byte-by-Byte, Silver and Forms-In-Flight formats.  But we are
having a little trouble getting Byte-by-Byte to cooperate.  They haven't 
been very friendly about releasing their format.  
	We have a lot of products in mind (actually in Martin's mind) that
will be for manipulating and enhancing animations.  And with the Converter
product, you can start with anyone else's product, or go back and forth,
taking atvantage of the strengths of the carious packages to make the best
possible animations.  

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